About Your Guides

KEN WILSON: Ken is the owner of Talon Tours and has been leading birding tours to Costa Rica since 1995. During this time he has gained extensive experience in all regions of the country. Ken also designs and leads tours in California, Mexico, Belize, Galapagos Is., Peru, Thailand, Australia and New Zealand.

PACO MADRIGAL: Paco, a native Costa Rican, is an owner and lead guide for Cotinga Tours with eighteen years experience guiding birding and nature tours. “There is no better satisfaction than to witness the joy experienced by clients when they see the Sunbittern, a Three-wattled Bellbird, Tinamous, or a Quetzal for the first time.”- Paco Madrigal.

“There is only one thing to match a bird sighting in an impenetrable tropical rainforest and that is to watch Paco’s expertise locating it with his ‘spotting scope’.” – Ken Wilson.